Today is Fire Festival in northern Ghana. It's a holiday I'd never heard of before I came to live in a village here as a Peace Corps community volunteer. It's incredibly intense.

The World Damba Festival 2012, a three-day celebration of the culture of northern Ghana, arrived at Tufts this weekend and featured a series of academic lectures given by speakers from around the ...

The shared legacy of “resistance and resilience”, integrated in encompassing narratives of the slave camps of the Sahel, down ...

The maiden celebration was on the theme: "Northern Ghana Development: The Role of the Northerner in the Diaspora." He said the objective of the DDF is aimed at strengthening the economic and ...

07/29/2023 July 29, 2023. Every year, on the ninth day of the first month of their traditional calendar, the people of northern Ghana commemorate a nighttime search for a missing prince in days ...

Security Consultant, Richard Kumadoe, has raised concerns over the misuse of traditional festivals in Ghana, warning that they are increasingly being used to settle personal scores, often with deadly ...

An academic at the University for Development Studies has called for a more nuanced handling of fallout from a recent death ...

Ghana has numerous festivals in its 16 administrative regions that attract both domestic and international tourists. The Kwahu Easter Festival stands out as one that’s shaped festival tourism ...

Numerous Black celebrities like Meek Mill, SZA, Chance the Rapper have flocked to Accra, Ghana in droves as of late. The capital of the West African country is becoming a music festival hotbed ...